Close call Aborted landing

[zionzr2]

The Story:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,334535,00.htmlThe Video:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddb_1204404185

[Blanco_Diablo]

Wow, that was a close one! Glad they decided to abort the attempt.

[WaveAction]

wow thats insane, very close, looked like the wings touched at one point

[Whelan]

That is what you call pure SKILLS!I heard about this and didn't get to see the video till I got home from work. My god that is lucky, could have turned out really bad.Typically in crosswinds pilots will keep the plane turned till the last moment then rudder the plane straight and once the rear wheels touch, the plane straightens out on the runway. Very regular occurance, but in this case the gail force winds were too strong and the gust blew him waay off course. KUDOS to the pilot, I would have shaken his hand when I got off the plane.

[GMJAP]

Props to the pilot. Shows the value of training and simulation.

[MRCN RCE]

damn, i think i woulda leaked about 2 drops of pee if i'd been a passenger on that plane. definite props to the pilot

[engineertwin2]

My reaction:Quote, originally posted by engineertwin2 »Wow! What an amazing set of skills to just maintain some semblance of control...A friend (he's a pilot at US Airways - flies the same type of plane) had this to say:Quote, originally posted by Friend of e-twin2 »Let's look at this from a pilot's perspective. In particular from one that flies that airplane...ME! The media is broadcasting this as "impressive pilot skills". Wrong! He did everything wrong starting at about the 50' point.The Airbus has a bias written in its programing that says that I am basically an idiot if I cross control the airplane [ie...right aileron w/left rudder]. And, normally in 'general flight' that's true. But the program also recognises that in a cross wind landing, "cross controlling" is necessary to be able to put the "upwind wing" down (to keep the wind from getting underneath and lifting it up) so when the radar altimeter calls "50 feet" that bias disappears so that we can accomplish a proper crosswind landing. Now doing that (up wind wing down) would cause the airplane to "yaw" in the direction of the "wing down" so of course that's when we apply opposite rudder. Basically, the wing down counter acts the wind, the opposite rudder counter acts the wing down yaw to keep the nose straight w/the runway. [all in simple laymans terms]Ok so...first of all, notice that from the 50' mark there was NEVER any right wing down with left rudder applied to kick the nose straight to counter act the cross wind. He touched down still in a crab (weather vane) into the wind. BIG NO NO...especially with the degree that he was turned sideways to the runway!! He's lucky he didn't collapse the gear from a side load impact [it's a tough gear...lucky him]. Since the wing wasn't down, with a proper landing on the right wheel first, the wind got under the right wing dragging the left wing on the ground. I'll stop there because all hell broke loose after that [pilot induced] and everything possible that could happen did. And then, the idiot took off again after damaging both wings and running off the runway!!! The damage was already done! It was an insane thing to do!! Just keep it on the runway...slow and STOP! He/they put all lives at risk with another landing and this time with a damaged airplane, the degree to which was unknown. An incredibly dumb decision in that cockpit.However after describing all of that, his FIRST MISTAKE was at the 30' mark and down. The mark that a real pilot would be to...GO FRICKING AROUND!!! There was NO IMPRESSIVE pilit skills here. Had he done the right thing FIRST, we would have never seen this video.Again...don't listen to the media.Capt EarlThought I'd share. It's always interesting getting the perspective of someone who works in the field.

[VforVIBE]

Quote, originally posted by engineertwin2 »A friend (he's a pilot at US Airways - flies the same type of plane) had this to sayWell, that takes all the fun out of it.